🎙️ Arturo is a leading scholar and thought leader in medical microbiology and infectious disease research. Please join us at the One Health Microbiome Symposium. He is in a league of professors who have long championed the "One Health" concept — which makes his perspective indispensable.

New work published today from the RasgonLab! The first thesis chapter from @zureishon.bsky.social! Project highlights some of the difficulties we had with sample collection during the early days of COVID journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Thursday, November 6, from 11:00 a.m. to noon, Joao Pedra, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will present "From Arthropod Immunology to Artificial Intelligence: a Journey Into Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases".

Thursday, October 30, from 11:00 a.m. to noon, Jessica Metcalf, Professor of Ecology and Evolution from Princeton University, will present "Infection dynamics and vaccination in a changing world".

Thursday, October 2, from 11:00 a.m. to noon–David Kennedy, Associate Professor of Biology from Penn State, will present "Anticipating the evolution of pathogen resistance and new diseases ."

Monday, September 29, from noon to 1:00 p.m., welcome Kara Fikrig to CIDD and hear what her lab is up to,

Thursday, September 25, from 11:00 a.m. to noon–Ryan Smith, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Microbiology from Iowa State University, will present "Mosquito immune cells and vector competence: A tale of two pathogens."

Monday, September 22, from noon to 1:00 p.m., hear from Isabella Cattadori, Professor of Biology at Penn State, on new working ideas on infection and nutrition.

OPEN INVITATION to the One Health Microbiome Symposium, May 13-14, 2026!! This is not your typical siloed topic conference. It unifies diverse research fields in microbiome science across Ag, Envtl, and Human Health. 1/n www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-one-h...

Thursday, September 18, from 11:00 a.m. to noon–Katherine Restori, Assistant Research Professor from Penn State, will present "Preexisting immunity to the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus reduces susceptibility to H5N1 infection and disease in ferrets."

Monday, September 15, from noon to 1:00 p.m., hear from Beth McGraw, Biology Professor and Department Head, and Shannon Cruz, Assistant Professor of Arts and Communications, on STIs (Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis) and Penn State wastewater.

Come and work with us! Review of candidates will begin ~1 October with rolling consideration thereafter. If you are unable to apply early, contact the search committee chair (me) to discuss timelines.

Monday, September 8, hear from @annepisor.bsky.social about the Society Lab and her research on how people use social relationships to navigate the impacts of environmental, social, and economic change on their well-being, health, and livelihoods.

Most viruses that spill over into new species burn out, but some persist. 🦠 A Penn State study led by David Kennedy and Clara Shaw found that infection prevalence and viral shedding were strong predictors, while severity and intensity were not. science.psu.edu/news/what-tr...

New work from the RasgonLab! Bacterial and fungal microbiomes are spatially structured across Culex tarsalis populations! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unraveling the arc of vaccine progress | Science Featuring work from @theferrarilab.bsky.social. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New review out in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social from our rodent-borne zoonoses workshop @ciddpsu.bsky.social 🐭🌍 Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎙️ JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: @ciddpsu.bsky.social Ctr for Infectious Disease Dynamics at PSU is searching for a Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling. This is a unique, cross-university search for someone to become a leader in our community! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

This is targeted at the Associate or Full level because we are specifically looking for candidates excited to lead collaborative research within the broad and diverse community at cidd.psu.edu and huck.psu.edu

This is a cross-University search with many Colleges and Departments participating. The department appointment will be tailored based on the candidate, so we're encouraging candidates with backgrounds as diverse as Biology, Entomology, Engineering, and Computer Science.

We are hiring! The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State seeks an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Dynamics 🦠 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Announcing the Fall 2025 CIDD Seminar lineup! 🎉 Featuring talks from @jessmetcalf.bsky.social , @cobey.bsky.social, @danahawley.bsky.social and more!

Happy World Mosquito Day! Hear from the @elizabethmcgraw.bsky.social lab on why they study mosquitos and the effect they have on humans 🦟 www.instagram.com/reel/DNlSx2x...

Very happy to have @entomososwin.bsky.social's thesis work finally published! Becky has been having an incredible month! parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Hear from @machtingerlab.bsky.social if you should be worried about ticks.

Excited to share a study w José L. Herrera-Diestra, Katriona Shea, @mjtildesley.bsky.social + @theferrarilab.bsky.social assessing the effectiveness of surveillance informed by network/spatial data for detecting Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks when FMD is endemic journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Powassan virus is a scary emerging tick-borne virus that causes neurological disease. It is great to see that my @ciddpsu.bsky.social colleagues are on top of it. www.psu.edu/news/researc...

Exciting new work from my @ciddpsu.bsky.social colleagues showing that pandemic H1N1 immunity reduces susceptibility to H5N1 infection and disease in ferrets.

Coverage of great work by my grad student @deepit.bsky.social on a new method to estimate subnational measles vaccination coverage for years without DHS surveys ... little did we know when we started that would be all years going forward.

Research, led by scientists at Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh, indicates that immunity to a seasonal influenza virus that began circulating in 2009 provides protection from severe illness from H5N1 — the strain causing the current bird flu outbreak — in a laboratory animal model.

Knowing how many people are vaccinated against an existing or re-emerging threat is a key factor guiding public health decisions, but such information is often sparse or non-existent in many regions, according to CIDD researchers @theferrarilab.bsky.social and Deepit Bhatia.

This whole thing is good. But if you need a quick pick-me up, zoom ahead to minute 42 and enjoy the soundtrack they picked for @vectorgen.bsky.social 's walk-on. It has dramatically improved my day.

It was fantastic to unplug from the chaos in the world for a few days to focus on the wonderful & impactful science being done in the Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Disease community. Huge thanks to Notre Dame for hosting @eeid2025.bsky.social and I can't wait for @eeid2026.bsky.social next year!

Thank you to the organizers of @eeid2025.bsky.social for a wonderful conference! We can’t wait for @eeid2026.bsky.social at Virginia Tech!

Thanks to everyone who came to my talk earlier today and who chatted with me after @eeid2025.bsky.social! Had many great conversations 🐄

Happy @eeid2025.bsky.social week! We’ll be sharing CIDD highlights from the week including talks, posters, and more!

New work from Abdul Wahaab in my lab! With @zureishon.bsky.social and Hieu Tran Nguyen Minh, in collaboration with ‪@joshuabenoit.bsky.social! Effect of prolonged dehydration stress on the vector competence of Aedes aegypti for Mayaro virus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm hiring a postdoc (Penn State Bio, CIDD @ciddpsu.bsky.social), details below. Email me if you're interested, you meet the qualifications, and you're generally a good person. Even better, if you're coming to @eeid2025.bsky.social, let's chat in real life. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Great coverage of @ciddpsu.bsky.social alumnus Suresh Kuchipudi’s work

Happening today!

#CIDDSeminar April 31, 2025, Megan Stanifer, Assistant Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine will present key antiviral cytokines in controlling intestinal barrier formation and protection from enteric viruses.

You know, it's been a while since I posted some science. But thankfully the lab is still doing some. Here @callumarnold.bsky.social looks at the performance of epidemic early warning systems when individual case diagnostics are imperfect. arxiv.org/abs/2504.11352

Happening today!

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 24, 2025, Shanice Webster, Postdoctoral Associate and Hanna Gray Fellow at Duke University will present on metabolites and nutrients as key modulators of microbiota selection and plant health.

Happening today!

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 17, 2025, Rupinder Kaur, Assistant Research Professor, Departments of Biology and Entomology (Bordenstein Lab), Pennsylvania State University, will present on decoding mechanisms of insect-microbe symbiosis to advance vector control strategies.

Monday, April 14, 2025, Eddie Holmes, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Virology Faculty of Medicine and Health Fellow at the University of Sydney, will present on redefining virus evolution and emergence using metatranscriptomics.

Happening today!

#CIDDSeminar This Thursday, April 10, 2025, Mercedes Pascual, Professor, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, New York University, will present on hyper-diversity, strain structure, and tipping points in a host-pathogen system.

Excited to finally see this in print! @callumarnold.bsky.social did really cool work here using latent class analysis of survey data to find risk groups for SARS-CoV-2 infection in students, verified it with serology, and modeled the population impact of moving individuals from high to low risk.